Window-screen.



No. 788,372. PATENTED APR. 25, 1905.

D.- T. PETERS. WINDOW SCREEN.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 27, 1904.

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DAVID T. PETERS, OF KANSAS CITY,

NTTED STATES g Patented April 25, 1905.

MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WVILLIAM C. IVHITFIELD, FLOYD W. HORTON, AND CLYDE E. HUNT,

OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

WINDOW-SCREEN.

SPECIFICATION form g p of Letters Patent 788,3'72, dated April 25, 1905.

Application filed June 2'7, 1904. Serial No. 214,260.

such as will enable others skilled in the art to ro-which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. My present invention relates to windowscreens, and more particularly to a class known as hanging window-screens, and has for its object to provide a device of the class described which is simple and economical in construction and contains points of novelty and utility not heretofore known.

The majority of screens heretofore in use have been adapted for sliding up and down along the jambs of the window, being held in 2 5 position by a groove in the edge of the screenframe engaging upright strips on said jambs. This method has been found to be unsatisfactory, and attempts have been made to provide a screen which is easy to put on and take off and which will swing from the win- (low-frame. Some of these screens are practicable for half-screens and some for full screens, while my invention is intended toapply to either a full or half screen.

A further advantage gained with a screen constructed according to my invention is that while 1t is capable of being instantly.

reference-numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of a window provided with a screen constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view on the line x 90, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective view showing the carrying-pin, hanger, and a portion of the screen in detail. Fig. 4 is a sideelevation of same, showing the hanger in a position to be removed from the pin.

. Referring more in detail to the drawings, 1 is the frame of a screen posited between the jambs 2 and 3 of an ordinary window-frame. Secured to the upper ends of and preferably countersunk in frame 1 are a pair of metal strips 4 and 5, the free ends of which are provided with slots 6 and 7. Secured in jambs 2 and 3 are a pair of carrying-pins 8 and 9, having T-heads 10 and 11 thereon, which act as keepers for retaining said hangers on said pins, as will presently be described.

In hanging the screens pins 8 and 9 are driven into the jambs 2 and 3 at the desired height, care being taken to have the heads 10 and 11 thereof parallel with each other, said heads being preferably horizontal, as shown in the drawings. The screen is then raised 75 to a position parallel with the heads 10 and 11 and hangers 4 and 5 sprung inwardly to allow said heads to slip through slots 6 and 7 in order that hangers 4 and 5 may gain their seats on the pins. The screen is then allowed to swing downwardly and inwardly to its closed position, when its sides impinge against the outer window-stops and its bottom sash 15 against the storm-sash 13 of the window.

1 1 is a bell-crank catch on sash 15, the lower member 16 of which is provided with a downwardly-projecting hooked lip 17, which is adapted to engage a keeper 18 on stormsash 13, said keeper having a beveled outer face 19 thereon. As the screen descends the lower member 16 of catch 14' engages the beveled face 19 of keeper 18 and is forced upwardly against the pressure of an expansionspring, which bears against the upper member of said catch until said lower member has passed over the beveled face of the keeper when by the action of said spring lower member 16 is forced downwardly until lip 17 gains its seat in keeper 18.

21 is a strip secured to the upper art of frame 1 of the screen, which exten s from window-stop to window-stop and fills in the spacebetween the upper part of the screenframe and the sash of the window.

22 is a pointed brace pivoted on frame 1 for the purpose of holding the screen open at a desired angle.

To remove the screen, it is only necessary to raise same to a position parallel with heads and 11 and spring the hangers inwardly a suflicient distance to clear said heads.

As can be readily deduced from the foregoing, the taking down and the replacing of screens constructed according to my invention is a very simple matter, as the pins when once posited need never be removed from the jambs, and there are no small parts to be removed and taken care of which are liable to be lost.

I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the exact details of structure herein shown and described, inasmuch as the same may be varied without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- In combination with a window-frame, a pair of supportingpins, one on each side of said frame and each having a horizontal rectangular head forming a T-shaped key, a screenframe having a pair of metal plates secured to the end edges thereof and projecting upwardly therefrom and having longitudinal grooves therein adapted to fit over the heads of said supporting-pins when the frame and plates are in a horizontal position to per mit said plates to gain their pivotal seats thereon, the T-heads on said pins being adapted to retain said plates on their pivotal seats when said screen is in any other but 'a horizontal position, and a suitable catch for locking the lower portion of said screen, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID T. PETERS.

Witnesses:

CARL E. KIMPTON, JOSEPH S. HALL. i 

